I found it hard to express it well in a tweet. I did not mean "bad" in the ethical sense, but in the sense of "very hard to justify to a neutral party based on generally known facts and universally acceptable reasoning".
The problems arise when a moral cause is argued to be conditional on particular facts. If an outsider disputes the facts, the believer usually assumes that one must also dismiss the cause, hence disputing the facts is not allowed. This may lead people to begin opposing the cause.
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That's certainly something that can happen, but I don't see that it's a general rule
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The more totalitarian and contested a belief system, the more frequently it seems to happen. For instance, I suspect that the alt-right is largely recruited from formerly apolitical groups that felt attacked by the ctrl-left.
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